Proceedings of the Society. 5,7 



Louise Horsely, Charles Schuckert, E. O. Ulrich, Charles P. 

 Fennel, Dr. James G. Hyndman, Omar T. Joslin. 



Mr. William B. Carpenter was elected to active membership. 



The President appointed Rev. Raphael Benjamin and Davis 

 L. James a committee to audit the Treasurer's accounts. 



Dr. O. D. Norton suggested that some appropriate document 

 of or relating to the society be handed to the Chamber of Com 

 merce to be placed in the corner-stone of their new building. It 

 was suggested and agreed that a number of the Journal be selected 

 for that purpose. 



Mr. William Hubbell Fisher offered the following amendment 

 to the By-Laws : 



" In the last clause of Section i, Article YI of the By Laws, 

 immediately after the word "active," insert the word "corres- 

 ponding." The clause amended to read as follows : "Active, 

 Corresponding and Life Members, and invited guests;, only, shall 

 be privileged to read papers before the Society." 



It was announced that Dr. S. J. Mills, Mr. J. F. Woods, Mr. 

 Mr. E. R. Quick and Mr. A. W. Butler had been nominated by 

 the Executive Board for Corresponding membership. 



Mr. Smith announced that arrangements had been made for 

 an exhibition to be given by the Botanical and Microscopical sec- 

 tions of the Society, at the Museum, Tuesday, June 14th, at 8 P. M. 



A vote of thanks was tendered the President, Mr Skinner, for 

 securing for the use of the Society a copy of Audobon's Birds of 

 America. The copy is to be loaned to the Society. 



Donations for June were as follows : From Dr. W. A. Dun, 

 Cecropia moth, precious garnets, sections of Freeman Ave. and 

 Hemingray gas wells; from Louis A. Piatt, Newport, Ky., Nest ot 

 Oriole; from Dr. O. D. Norton, Vertebra of Megalodon, flint 

 chips ; from Prof. E. W. Claypole, Akron, O., Organic Variation 

 Indefinite, not Definite in Direction (pamph.); from W. R. Lighten, 

 Leavenworth, Kan., specimen of Camptosorus rhizophyllus ; from 

 Franklin Institute, through Mr. Wm. H Knight, miscellaneous 

 publications of Institute ; from Academy of Natural Science, 

 through Mrs. Wm. H. Knight, miscellaneous publications of Acad- 

 emy ; from Rev. Raphael Benjamin, Cecropia moth; from Baron 

 F. Von Thumen, Gerz, Austria, Monograph, "Die Phoma Krank- 



